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points by deadbabe 2 days ago | 0 comments
it can be simulated to a very high fidelity.
[–] johncolanduoni 2 days ago
There’s no simulation you can do today that can tell you that your drug will likely make it through phase 3 trials. The best we can do is simulate reactions of a few key molecules, we’re nowhere near cell or organism scale simulations.
[–] deadbabe 1 day ago
What about within 5 years?

Humans are just organic simulation environments for these drug trials.

[–] zahlman 2 days ago
Observing a faithful simulation is not at all the same thing as understanding what has been seen.
[–] dlougheed 1 day ago
it absolutely cannot be